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MESA 1999
Middle East Studies
Association
33rd Annual Meeting
November 19-22
Washington, D.C.
Marriot Wardman Park
Hotel
? Friday, November 19
Society for Armenian
Studies (SAS)
8:00-9:00 PM Executive
Board Meeting
Marriot Wardman Park
Hotel, Linai 156 Room
9:00-11:00 PM Annual
Meeting
Marriot Wardman Park
Hotel, Harding Room
16th Annual Film Fest
Enemy of the People
Wall of Silence
Panels and activities
during the
MESA Conference
November 19-22,
1999
Friday, November 19
11 AM Tour of Library
of Congress.
If you are unable
to make this, please e-mail Dr. Levon Avdoyan (lavd@loc.gov) for alternate
tour information or assistance if you would like to use the collection
during the conference.
2-4 PM Working Seminar
on Armenian-Kurdish historic and contemporary relations at the Library
of Congress. Those who are involved in Armenian Studies are invited
to attend. For more information, contact Dr. Levon Avdoyan (lavd@loc.gov)
? Saturday, November
20
1:30-3:30 PM
Saudi Arabia: History,
Identity and Foreign Policy
Chair: Joseph A. Kechichian,
Kechichian and Associates, LLC
R. Hrair Dekmejian,
University of Southern California
Determinants of Saudi
Foreign Policy
5:30 PM Dinner at St. Mary?s Armenian Church with the local community, followed by a panel on Karabakh. To RSVP, e-mail gottenbr@umich.edu
? Sunday, November
21
8:00-10:00 AM
Revolutionary Thought
and Policy in20th Century Iran
Houri Berberian, California
State University, Long Beach
From Sweets to Arms:
Collaboration and Contention between Armenian and Iranian Constitutionalists
10:30-12:30 AM
The Construction
of Ethnic Identity in Modern Armenian Literature
Chair: Dickran Kouymjian, California State University, Fresno
Victoria Rowe, University
of Toronto
Female Gender Identity
in the First Generation of Armenian-American Women Writers
Barlow Der Mugrdechian,
California State University, Fresno
Peter Balakian?s Black
Dog of Fate: Armenian Identity in America
S. Peter Cowe, UCLA
Weaving Identity in
the Poetic Web: Armenian Literature of Istanbul
Rubina Peroomian,
UCLA
Expressions of Nationalism
in Dissident and Post-Soviet
Armenian Literature
Discussant: Kevork
B. Bardakjian, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies
1:30-3:30 PM
Armenia in the Eighteenth
Century: The Last ?Dark Age?
Chair: S. Peter Cowe,
UCLA
Robert H. Hewsen, Rowan
University
Armenia in the Eighteenth
Century: The Parameters of the Investigation
Sevana Bagdasarian
Panosian, UCLA
Baghdasar Tbir as
Humanist and Social Reformer
Thomas A. Sinclair,
University of Cyprus
Ottomans, Armenians
and Yezidis in the Province of Van: The Evidence of the Minor Chronicles
George A. Bournoutian,
Iona College
Newly Available Sources
for Armenian History in the
18th Century
? Monday, November
22
10:30 AM-12:30
PM
Diaspora and Memory
Chair: Anahid Kassabian, Fordham University
David Kazanjian, City
University of New York and
Anahid Kassabian,
Fordham University
Filmic Conventions
and Innovations: Representing the
Armenian Diaspora
in North America
Vartan Matiossian,
University of Salvador, Argentina
The Refusal of the
Diaspora in the Life and Work of
Constant Zarian
Marc Nichanian, Columbia
University
Memory and Catastrophe
M. Lena Takvorian,
Columbia University
Memory and Learning
in the Diasporic Novel:
An Incommensurability?
Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies
1 PM
Reception at the Embassy
of the
Republic of Armenia
To RSVP, e-mail gottenbr@umich.edu
